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inventarisnummer | PLT0745
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collectie | Plate
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museum | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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datum | circa 1915
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omschrijving | Tea caddy, relic of Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871-1936).
Silver-plated tea caddy, damaged in an explosion aboard Beatty's ship HMS ‘Lion’ at the Battle of the Dogger Bank, 24 January 1915.
Originally cube-shaped with canted corners and a plain round neck, the tea caddy is now broken into two pieces, and is twisted and buckled, with parts missing. One corner of the top is inscribed: 'Tea caddy broken by explosion of shell in Admiral's cabin at Dogger Bank'.
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afmetingen | Overall: 105 x 100 x 85 mm
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